General Community Meeting Minutes

Wednesday, November 15, 2017 at 7:30 PM

  1. Fran and Nick made a motion to call the meeting to order at 7:34 PM
  2. Gina and Kim Amade a motion to approve theOctober minutes with unanimous approval.
  3. Old Business:
  4. Congrats to the JPW Cheerleaders for taking 1st place and the JV Cheerleaders for an outstanding performance at Locals. Both teams will complete at Regionals this coming weekend.
  5. Congratulations to the 8U Football Team on their Northern Championship. First championship since the 2015 JPW.
  6. Congratulations and well deserved recognition by the Western CT Officials with their Annual Sportsmanship Award. Doug and Fran will attend the banquet on Monday.
  7. 2nd equipment return date coming soon, please be on the lookout.
  8. Thank you to all the participants who filled out the surveys. 83 responses. BPW is doing well, weighted average score of 4.38, which equals to approximately. 88%.
  9. Treasury Update – Current Balance $23,255.89
  10. New Business
  11. Cheer – Kim S –
  12. All Cheer Banquet will be this Tuesday at the Amber Room.
  13. TM Cheerleaders supported the 8U Football team throughout the season to include the playoff games.
  14. Football – John/ Fran/ Doug –
  15. Several Bethel players joined BPW this season and will continue
  16. D3 – BPW is committed and recognize this is what is best for the league
  17. Splitting of the teams were discussed and the board will be interested in solutions from the community for the future.
  18. Scholastics – John – 107 applications were submitted and 106 applications were accepted. Information has been sent out to the applicants about the Scholars Weekend.
  19. Communications – Tammy – N/A
  20. Fundraising – Jen M – N/A
  21. Voting/ Nomination Process Review – those members in good standing can either be nominated for an Executive Board Position or can nominate another member in good standing. Those members in good standing will vote for the nominations at the December meeting.
  22. Executive Board Nominations –
  23. Tammy Sylvester – Communications
  24. Fund Raising – Jennifer Mix
  25. Scholastic – John Mara
  26. Concessions – Nick Lupinacci
  27. Cheer Registrar – Open
  28. Football Registrar – Gina Sacharewitz
  29. Cheer Commissioner – Kim Saleh
  30. Football Commissioner – Fran Balzi
  31. Secretary – Kim Gunn
  32. Treasurer – Kim Abreu
  33. Vice President – Matt Ackerly
  34. President – Doug Silvia
  35. Other Business from the Board and/or Community
  36. Tad Dean brought up a New Fairfield complaint about a spotter being very rude and obnoxious. Complaint was noted and possible action would be to file a complaint.
  37. Tom Mix comment on how well the program is doing and how important it is for the board to stay cohesive which will continue to progress the program.
  38. Meeting adjourned at 8:26 pm
  39. Next meeting will be Wednesday, December 20, at 7:30 PM at Brookfield Town Hall.